Victoria Secret model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was photographed in Los Angeles while on the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. The shots, though not very exciting, do prove that Whiteley has got the talent to fill out a form-fitting mini-dress convincingly, which will make the plot of this toy-based movie all the more realistic.

Whiteley also rocks what appears to be a President Obama apron in some of the shots, suggesting the film is looking to make reparations for last year’s Revenge of the Fallen’s highly controversial blackface Autobots Skid and Mudflaps.

Whiteley replaces Megan Fox as Shai LeBeouf’s love interest in the film. Transformers 3 is slated for release on July 1, 2011.

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Erika Christensen stars as a mother out for revenge in Twisted Pictures (Saw) first ever family film The Tortured. The film will have its world premiere  at the 11th Annual Film4 Frightfest film festival in London (Aug. 26-30).

Directed by Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky), The Tortured stars Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe as a young married couple out to punish the murderer (Bill Moseley) who abducted their son. The movie’s trailer was debuted at last year’s AFM convention in Los Angeles.

The film marks a return to horror for Christensen, who currently stars on NBC’s family drama “Parenthood.” The pretty 27-year-old starlet’s fright credits include the 2005 thriller Flightplan and 2002 teen obsession-thriller Swimfan.

The day I finally overdose on cocaine (or Pixy Stix), I hope the last post I put up on this site is the most interesting, funniest, inspiring, sexiest, informative piece ever. I would hate to be eternally linked to a post about Lucy Lawless’ freakishly big areolas.

That said …

Anchor Bay Entertainment has set an Aug. 24 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Michael Feifer’s low-budget thriller Abandoned. The film marks the final performance of late actress Brittany Murphy, who met her unfortunate drug-induced doom last Christmas at the age of 32.

Abandoned stars Murphy as a woman frantically trying to find her boyfriend after he disappears from a hospital during a routine procedure. The film costars Dean Cain (”Lois & Clark”), Kristen Kerr (Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane), and busty straight-to-DVD queen Mimi Rogers (Penny Dreadful).

No word from rental service Redbox on whether they will carry Abandoned at their crime-riddled kiosks locations, but chances are they will considering the box art isn’t quite as disturbing as Murphy’s second-to-last final movie Deadline.

I'm going to get you!

Best know for her role as Lt. Blair Williams in 2009’s Terminator: Salvation, actress/model Moon Bloodgood has never fared too well on TV. The 34-year-old star of NBC’s time-traveling drama “Journeyman” and ABC’s time-altering thriller “Day Break” saw both series rapidly canceled (the latter after airing only six episodes) in ’06 and ’07 respectively.

Regardless, Bloodgood is making her return to television this year as child therapist Anne Glass in the Steven Spielberg produced TNT alien-invasion series “Falling Skies.” The show costars “ER’s” Noah Wyle, Jessy Schram, Drew Roy, The Fourth Kind’s Will Patton and The Last Airbender’s Seychelle Gabriel.

The official synopsis reads:

In FALLING SKIES, Wyle stars as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force. Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation.

The series also Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group’s commissary. Will Patton plays a fierce leader of the resistance.

FALLING SKIES is executive-produced by Steven Speilberg along with DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank and screenwriter Robert Rodat.

Rodat, who earned an Oscar^® nomination for his screenplay for Saving Private Ryan, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with Spielberg. Verheiden and Greg Beeman (Heroes, Smallville) are co-executive producers.

The pilot was directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move, Out of Time).

Bloodgood and Wyle will be part of a “Falling Skies” Q&A panel at Comic-Con on July 23.

TNT released a number of promotional stills from the show. Here you have some of the more interesting shots:

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Korean actress Bae Doona plays an inflatable-sex-doll-come-to-life in Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Air Doll, a big screen adaptation of Yoshiie Goda’s manga series “Kuuki Ningyo.”

Set in Tokyo, the story revolves around Nozomi (Doona) the sex doll, her lonely owner Hideo (Itsuji Itao), and Junichi (Arata), the man she falls in love with at the video store where she has taken a job.

Take a peek:

The film features many outrageous moments including a squeaky sex scene between Hideo and Nozomi (with post vaginal clean-up) and probably the best human-on-inflatable-partner blowjob this side of Airplane!

Check it out:

And, suddenly, I’m thinking I may have written off Air Bud a little too hastily.

Doona is best known for her roles in internationally acclaimed Korean director Park Chan-wook’s revenge-thriller Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Bong Joon-ho’s creature-feature The Host, the highest grossing film to date in South Korea’s history.

The 30-year-old starlet has already picked up a Best Actress Award at this year’s Takasaki Film Festival in Japan for her portrayal of Nozomi the Air Doll.

Air Doll opens in the States this weekend in selected cities (check your theater listings like right now!)

Airplane! is available on DVD everywhere:

Universal has wrangled former “Mad Men” actress Abigail Spencer for director Jon Favreau’s (Iron Man) sci-fi-western Cowboys & Aliens. The 28-year-old brunette will play Alice, a prostitute who helps cure former flame and hero Zeke Jackson (Daniel Craig) of all wickedness.

Set in the mid 19th century, Cowboys & Aliens follows a group of cowboys and Indians on a mission to stop an alien race from enslaving mankind. “LOST” co-creator Damon Lindelof wrote the script with his go-to collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer serve as producers.

Spencer joins an impressive cast that includes Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Walton Goggins, Paul Dano, and Clancy Brown.

Cowboys & Aliens is currently filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a target release date of July 29, 2011.

“Community” and “Mad Men” star Alison Brie has signed on to star in Wes Craven’s meta-slasher Scream 4, currently filming in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 26-year-old actress will play Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) “ambitious” new assistant.

Brie joins a cast that includes Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Mary McDonnell, Erik Knudsen, Nico Tortorella, and old-schoolers Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Araquette.

Scream 4 marks the start of a new trilogy and is the first entry in the series since 2000. The franchise has earned over $500 million in worldwide coin.

Scream 4 arrives in theaters on April 15, 2011.

Andrew Garfield has been cast as Sony Pictures new Spiderman!

::Crickets::

Says director Marc Webb:

Though his name may be new to many, those who know this young actor’s work understand his extraordinary talents. He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit, and humanity. Mark my words, you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.

Mark Webb?

::Crickets::

Just joshing! Webb directed the very cute rom-com 500 Days of Summer.

Garfield has starred in director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and will next be seen in Mark Romanek’s sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go and David Fincher’s Facebook story The Social Network.

Sony made the announcement today during an international press event in Cancun, Mexico. From the press release:

After a comprehensive worldwide casting search, Andrew Garfield has been chosen to portray Peter Parker when Spider-Man swings back onto the screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios.

Today’s confirmation culminates what has been one of the most eagerly anticipated casting announcements in recent memory. Bloggers, pop culture speculators, and everyday fans have pored over and analyzed every conceivable online rumor in an attempt to discover the identity of the next actor to play Peter Parker. Garfield will immediately begin preparing for the coveted role.

The Spiderman reboot is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our web-slinging hero back in high school. The film is budgeted at $80 million and will be released in 3-D on July 3, 2012.

Garfield is reportedly being paid $500,000 to play the beloved web-slinger. That may not seem like a lot of money until you realize that you’re making $13 an hour and will never meet a hot girl who will want to screw you while you wear your Hot Dog on a Stick uniform.

Check out Garfield and Webb at today’s press event:

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The international trailer for Hammer Films’ Let Me In, a remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire-drama Let the Right One In, has hit the web. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), the film appears to being staying true to the original’s vibe.

Take a look:

Let Me In stars 14-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) as a bullied schoolboy and 13-year-old Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass) as his vampire girlfriend and guardian. The film is based on the best selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma.

Let the Right One In is included in Clatto’s prestigious 15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay list.

The film arrives in theaters on Oct. 1.

Sony Pictures’ direct-to-DVD label Stage 6 Films is looking towards August to start production on Hostel: Part III, the second sequel to Eli Roth’s 2006 genre game-changer Hostel. Scott Spiegel, who served as executive producer on Hostel 1 & 2, is attached to direct from a script by Michael Weiss (Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D).

Roth, who was said to to be producing, is not involved in the project at all.

He tweets:

Rumor Control: not producing Hostel 3, but it’s in the VERY capable hands of director Scott Spiegel & producers Mike Fleiss & Chris Briggs.

There was a huge demand to continue the series and they are the right team to do it. They’re very smart, creative, and really get it.

Personally, I believe the Hostel movies are the best horror flicks of all time. I’m disappointed that Roth won’t be writing/directing Hostel: Part III and can’t help but think his decision was influenced by Hostel 2’s low box office take and the media’s portrayal of the film’s as “torture porn.”

In my opinion, Hostel 2’s gross suffered due to a poor release date. Whereas the original Hostel film hit theaters in January of ’06, going on to earn over $80 million worldwide, the sequel was dropped smack in the middle of summer, opposite a grip of family fare and tent-pole releases.

Since then, Roth appears to be gun-shy, taking on only producing gigs (The Last Exorcism) and acting roles in films such as Alexandre Aja’s upcoming Piranha 3-D and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof.  The loss of his movie-making mojo even appears to have taken its toll on the caliber of chicks he bangs.

But, I digress.

According to the exclusive-happy kids at Bloody-Disgusting, Hostel: Part III will be set around a bachelor party in Las Vegas that goes terribly wrong.

Other Stage 6 Films productions include the upcoming 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, The Grudge 3, Vacancy 2, Boogey Man 3, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, and the Jenna Jameson vehicle Zombie Strippers.